As they do most every year, Mission District revelers blasted music, danced in the streets, and set off hundreds of fireworks at intersections across the neighborhood to celebrate the Fourth of July.
And, like clockwork, San Francisco police officers rushed the crowds again this year, ordering them to disperse a little before 11 p.m. and then giving chase.
“You have four minutes to leave the area,” Lt. Manny Bonilla, who earlier this week became the acting captain of Mission Station, said at 10:49 p.m. He was speaking through an SUV-mounted loudspeaker to about 200 people gathered at 26th Street and Treat Avenue, by Garfield Park…